The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-03
DIR. M'GLYNN'S LATEST
HIS Remarkable Article Eatitlsd "ras Nsw
Kutw-Nothiugiam and the Old"
vivid Presentation of the Evils aud Dan
gers Which, 70 the Writer'S Opin-
ion, Threaten American
Institutions.

NEW YoRK, July 2S-A remarkable ar
iicle by the Rev. DR.. Edward McGlynn,
entitled The New know-Nothluglsm aud
the Old" appears IN the August number
of the North American Review. The pa
per is a vivid presentation OF the evils and
dapger which, in the writer's opinion,
threaten American nationality and Anne
ricsn institutions from, as he alleges, the
avowed purpose of German clergy
men to prevent the assimilation
of their immigrant countrymen
and their offspring with the American
type. on the one hand, and the political
sCheming and sectarian educational tend
encies of the Roman Catholi: church on
the other. He says there is a widespread
and persistent effort, with scarcely any at
tempt to conceal it, TO Germanize the
Catholic church in the Northwest. This
means toward the attainment of this is to
multiply German churches, schools and
German parishes, and TO make the multi
plication of the latter an excuse and JUS
LITIGATION for the appointment, with the
aid of German cardinals in Rome, of Ger
transporting bishops.
In the second point of his article of the
evils and dangers likely to come to Ameri-
can institutions by political wire pulling
and sectarian measures in education by the
Catholic church, DR.. McGlynn says:
There is now Ga avowed determination,
as shown in the last council OF Baltimore,
10 establish all over the country a great
system of parochial schools in opposition
10 the public schools, and it is made the
most urgent duty of priests every where,
under threats of expulsion, to found such
schools. The pope has not concealed that
when the so called Catholic vote shall be-
come larger, the politicians may be in
duced to appropriate through State leg
islation or local government all the funds
necessary for these schools This has
already been accomplished in Pough-
kfepsie, New Haven and elsewhere.
Another thing which was unheard of
generation ago was an appropriation OF
valuable public lands and millions of dol.
lars of public moneys to the support of all
manners of sectarian Institutions under
tie control of churches ard especially OF
the Roman Catholic church"
The writer saws: at is notIiskiug much
10 say that If there were no public schools
there would be very few, psrochial schools
and the Catholic children for all the
church would DO for them would grow up
in british ignorance of letters"
He cites the fact that in Italy, France
and other so-called Catholic countries, in
spite of the hostility of the government
schools, the clergy DOES not establish
parochial schools, and that the ecolesias,
iical authorities of Italy, while willing
enough to impose on the Catholic people
of America so heavy burden, do not dare
10 try TO impose similar burden on their
own people.
DR.. McGlyun next takes up 1.-The actual
and direct influence in politics of bishops
vicsr generals and priests to promote the
temporal objects OF the ecclesiastical ma.
chine" He illustrates by citing the ac-
ton of the late Vicar General Qainn, of
New York, in directing the priests to uss
their influence to defeat constitutional
am epdments the clerical alliance with the
Tweed ring, the letter of Mgr. Preston TO
Joseph L. G. D0nohue in the late mayoral.
ty campaign, the secret prohibition t.
him himself not to speak of a politi
cal meeting antagonistic to Tam
many, the abuse of the confessional in the
inteTe st of the Tammany clique and the
effort of Archbishop Corrigan to defeat the
call for constitutional convention as well
as his similar actions when bishop of New
ark. Finally the doctor says that from a
cursory review of the situation then and
now, it would seem that the fear of these
things the evils and dangers of which
were dreaded, predicted and denounced
with so much vehemence by the older
Know-Nothings would find to-day hun
dred fold greater justification, and yet we
witness the extraordinary spectacle of the
indifference of the older political parties
TO the danger and their actual cooperation
in bring about this state of things through
legislative action.
The article concludes with detailed ex.
position of the lines on which the remedy
must be based. Briefly they are: Respect
for the rights OF conscience, separation of
church and state, the making of this
country beacon of liberty and a refuge
10 the oppressed of all nations of the
world, the abolishing of all privileges
granted by public authority to individuals
or corporations, whether civil or re.
hgious, and the equal taxation of
the property OF all such corpora.
tions without exceptions in favor of any
churches, charity or school, and the con-
duct of the Government in all things ab-
solutely for the public, that is, the COM
mon good, or, in other words, for the
masses, and never for an individual or for
a class. Thus only common schools and
common treasury and only the common
Language of the country should be taught
in the common schools.